According to the latest MCAS test results, Dartmouth students beat state averages, especially in science and technology scores. However, math scores are down from last year.

The MCAS report, released Sept. 24 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, weighed science scores primarily in 5th, 8th and 10th grades as well as English and math scores in grade 10. Only a small portion of students in grades 3 through 7 participated in the English and mathematics MCAS and so they did not constitute separate testing groups.

MCAS results are categorized by achievement levels, which include advanced, proficient, needs improvement and warning/failing.

Dartmouth students were more proficient than the state average in nearly all science and technology/engineering performance levels. In 10th grade science, 82 percent scored proficient or higher, compared to the state’s 72 percent.

At the proficient level in science and technology, the state scored 39 percent while Dartmouth scored 46 percent.

In areas that Dartmouth students did not exceed the state average, scores only fell behind by 1 percent. The advanced category in science and technology is where they fell behind slightly, with scores of 14 percent compared to the state’s 15 percent.

Compared to last year’s scores in all three subjects, there was a slight increase in 10th grade students at the needs improvement and warning/failing levels. In English, the advanced level increased by 10 percent, but the proficient level decreased from 52 to 41. Those scoring at an advanced level in math dropped from 64 to 52 percent.

“We saw a jump in the [English] and a decline in math,” said Superintendent Bonny Gifford. “We’re going to be looking into the data to develop an action plan [and] looking at how we need to change.”

Grade 10 was the only grade that participated in testing in all three subjects. Grades 5 and 8 participated in MCAS testing in science only.

English and mathematics scores for grades 3 through 8 were not accounted for in the MCAS data because “most or all students” took the PARCC test. PARCC data will be released in October. PARCC accounts for the new Common Core standards. It tests students in grade 3 through 11 in English and mathematics.

In other South Coast school districts, advanced English and math scores went up from 2014 in grade 10.

At New Bedford High School, advanced English scores increased from 12 to 13 percent and math increased from 15 to 20 percent. Westport Senior High School’s English scores increased from 28 to 51 percent and math went 36 to 47 percent. Apponequet Regional High saw advanced English scores increase from 47 to 68 percent and math scores increase from 58 to 71 percent. Old Rochester Regional’s advanced English scores increased from 47 to 53 percent and the district's math scores increased from 56 to 63 percent.